Author Archives: Sue Modlin

On July 1st, Pierre Llorach (Walsh Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “MDMA restores corico-accumbal signaling and rescues autism-related social deficits”. Congratulations Pierre!!

Congratulations to Preston Siegler for being selected as a 2025 SBN Elsevier Scholar Awardee!! Elsevier and SBN recognizes 5 early-career investigators as Elsevier Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Awardees. Awardees can be trainees such as graduate students, postdocs, or research fellows/faculty, or non-tenure track and pre-tenure principal investigators. The awardee must attend the...

On March 31st, Grace Ross successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Switching state to stay engaged: The dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network in sustained attention”. Mentor: Dr. Flavio Frohlich.  Congratulations Dr. Ross!!

On March 27th, Shannon Rhoads successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Illuminating neuron and astrocyte physiology through organelle signature analysis”. Mentors: Dr. Sarah Cohen and Dr. Todd Cohen.  Congratulations Dr. Rhoads!!

On March 11th, Miguel Cuevas Melendez (Stein Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “Engineering synaptic plasticity in advanced maturation cortical organoids harboring an intellectual disability-associated mutation”. Congratulations Miguel!!

On March 5th, Siddhi Ozarkar successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “White matter in neurotypical development and Angelman syndrome”. Mentor: Dr. Ben Philpot.  Congratulations Dr. Ozarkar!!

On March 4th, Blake Fordyce (Roth Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “The nanoscale organization of 5-HT2A receptors”. Congratulations Blake!!

On February 26th, Katherine Degner (Won Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Developing Systemic in Vivo Massively Parallel RReporter Assay to Elucidate the Genetic Etiology of Problematic Alcohol Use”. Congratulations Katherine!!

On February 21st, Nicole Ochandarena successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Cell type and circuit mechanisms of opioid-sensitive neurons in the cerebral cortex”. Mentor: Dr. Greg Scherrer.  Congratulations Dr. Ochandarena!!

On February 11th, Nicholas Ringelberg successfully defended his PhD Thesis: “Circuit Mechanisms Diving Seizure and Behavior in a Mouse Model of Angelman Syndrome”. Mentor: Dr. Ben Philpot.  Congratulations Dr. Ringelberg!